Home Health & Hospice Week
Lawmakers Propose Hospice Legislation In Wake Of Critical OIG Reports
A bill that would increase hospice survey frequency is working its way through Congress. The Helping Our Senior Population in Comfort Environments (HOSPICE) Act (H.R. 5821) would require hospice surveys occur at least every 24 months; implement intermediate sanctions; increase transparency for surveys conducted by Accrediting Organizations; and toughen surveys for hospices that “have substantially failed to meet requirements.” The bill comes after headline-grabbing reports from the HHS Office of Inspector General on hospice horror stories, including hospice patients with maggots and gangrene leading to amputations (see Eli’s HCW, Vol. XXVIII, No. 24). Both the National Association for Home Care & Hospice and the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization applaud lawmakers for taking the industry’s concerns into account in crafting the bill. But “NHPCO does not support increasing survey frequency to every two years for all hospice providers across the board,” the trade group says in a release. “Hospice providers that are following the rules should not be subjected to excessive administrative burden and forced to needlessly divert resources from patient care,” NHPCO CEO Edo Banach says in the release.
Home Health & Hospice Week
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Lawmakers Propose Hospice Legislation In Wake Of Critical OIG Reports
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